Colbert on hallucinogens

This segment looks like it was made by people who haven't taken psychedelics for a long time, if at all.

However, this sort of media attention is helpful - Colbert presents psychedelic research as something happening by professionals at the prestigious "Johns Hopkins University", he doesn't say anything directly bad about psychedelics (he suggests they might help grandpa), and then he happily takes a blotter and has an enjoyable, introspective time (he meets with his 'spirit guide', and rather than fulfilling Colbert's naive expectations of having a far-out fantasy, the guide tells him that he's going "here" where it's "real").

People think of Colbert not as simply "sarcastic", but rather as satirizing the far-right. That the Colbert character would express such a positive view of psychedelics is notable - it creates the idea that even far-right people are OK with psychedelics, and hence it's not a scary topic of discussion.

I doubt that will do anything to hinder the research being done helping anxiety and war vets PTSD. The mdma research isnt new, but will still be usefull with all of the mentally ill vets coming home from Iraq.

I agree. We keep getting this in the media. People are standing up to disagree with these people, and all they get is "Just go get high and be happy." As if that's all there is to it.

We all just want to "trip balls" or something...

And they use the jokes so that people will more easily think that the idea is ridiculous.

GK-OR, you make a valid point however you have to consider who his audience is - it isn't as if they're uneducated conservatives. His audience would be capable of understanding that it's merely satire. They receive their objective balanced information from the legit news (one would hope), and they watch Colbert for a humourous spin on it, thus the segment. If they haven't yet made up their mind on the subject based on information they've received thusfar, it is highly improbable that they're going to make a conclusion based on a sketch by Colbert.

Perfect, after several media outlets disseminate reasonably objective arguments about paradigm shifting, neuroplastisizing [sic] wonder drugs, we get haha funny talk by a man people habitually take at the opposite of face value (as everything he says is sarcastic.) Not only do we get a taste of the "tripping balls" meme, but the implication that doctors studying psychedelics are merely "quacks," like those that would tell one their "crippling fibromyalgia" is best treated with high dose opiates. You've done us all a disservice for the sake of a joke, Stephen. One toke over the line, brother.